...prudent, fair, and chaste, But ah! my girl, you do not love! X ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS A Satire 'I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.' SHAKSPEARE. 'Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There arc as mad, abandon'd critics too.'...

...although Hotspur's temper is always at the forefront, especially when he must listen to Glendower: I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers; Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge....

...you talk in blank verse. As You Like It, 4.1.30-2 "Cod buy you" spells out "goodbye"; "an" = if. 6 I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers. Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1, 3.1.127-8 Expressing in verse his scorn for it....

...And gave the tongue a helpful ornament A virtue that was never seen in you. HOTSPUR Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart! I had rather be a kitten and cry mew 128 Than one of these same meter ballet-mongers. 129 I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned 130...

...gave the tongue a helpful ornament, — A virtue that was never seen in you. HOTSPUR. Marry, and I am iedman Publishing Group, Incorporated ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree; And...

...Horace, an adaptation of Horace's Ars Poetica. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS (EXCERPT,i809l A SATIRE "I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! Than one of these same metre ballad,mongers" Shakespeare "Such shameless hards we have; and yet 'tis tme, There are as mad, abandon'd crities too,"...

...And gave the tongue74 a helpful ornament A virtue that was never seen in you. Hotspur Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart. I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same meter75 ballad-mongers.76 125 65 just 66 expense 67 cut, divide, sever 68 projecting piece of land...

...of relationships, but he has problems in another area: he cannot enjoy the arts. He tells Glendower: I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,...

...gave the tongue a helpful ornament, — A virtue that was never seen in you. HOTSPUR. Marry, and I am ith our neelds created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warblin ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axlctree; And...